REDISCOVERING ZEN’S ROOTS IN ANCIENT CHINA

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Wendy Johnson: 06-16-2012: The Four Elements Return to Their True Nature (Part 2 of 2)

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This retreat is an exploration in environmental chaplaincy: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. During this highly experiential retreat, we will use our embodied experience of the four elements — Earth, Water, Fire, and Air — to deepen our understanding of some of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. This talk takes up the elements of water and fire.

Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been practicing Zen meditation for thirty-five years and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. Wendy is one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. She has been teaching gardening and environmental education to the public since the early 1980s.

Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wendy has been practicing Zen meditation for thirty-five years and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. Wendy is one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. She has been teaching gardening and environmental education to the public since the early 1980s.

In 2000 Wendy and her husband, Peter Rudnick, received the annual Sustainable Agriculture Award from the National Ecological Farming Association. Since 1995 Wendy has written a quarterly column, “On Gardening,” for Tricycle Magazine, a Buddhist Review. She was honored in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2000, published by Houghton Mifflin. Wendy is a mentor and advisor to the Edible Schoolyard program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, a project that she has been involved in since in its inception in 1995. This is her first book.

One Response to Wendy Johnson: 06-16-2012: The Four Elements Return to Their True Nature (Part 2 of 2)

Good talk. the quote from the girl at the Earth Summit was very powerful. One of the true hopes we collectively have would be to heal the Earth together and in so doing move away from the prison of a self seeking competive nature. How to do this?